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Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock

The two revolutions -- The kinetic nation -- The Immigration Act of 1965 -- The multiracial state -- Common wealth -- The privileged classes -- Out of status -- Local, state, and federal -- The great divide -- The future of American migrations -- Epilogue

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- INTODUCTION THE 'CLASH OF CIVILISATIONS' AND THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- PART ONE AGAINST ABSOLUTISM AND RELATIVISM: TOWARDS A GLOBALLY ENFORCEABLE CONCEPT OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- 1. TRANSNATIONAL SOCIALITY, SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- TOWARDS A SOCIOLOGY OF GOVERNANCE -- DURKHEIM, MAUSS AND THE INDEXICAL NATURE OF LAW -- GLOBALISATION AND ITS CHALLENGE TO SOCIOLOGY -- TOWARDS A THEORY OF TRANSNATIONAL SOCIALITY -- THE PRIMACY OF THE TRANSNATIONAL -- THE FORMS OF GLOBALISATION -- THE NATION STATE, SPACE AND TRANSNATIONAL SOCIALITY -- CLASS AND TRANSNATIONAL SOCIALITY -- LAW, RIGHTS AND TRANSNATIONAL SOCIALITY -- A POSITIVIST AND DISAGGREGATED CONCEPT OF RIGHTS -- CONCLUSION -- 2. THE CHALLENGER OF PACIFIC CAPITALISM: FROM PAX AMERICANA TO THE JAPANESE WAY? -- THE SPECIFICITY OF PACIFIC CAPITALISM -- AMERICAN POSTMODERNITY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND INCREDULITY ALONG THE PACIFIC RIM -- POSTMODERNITY AND LABOUR RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES -- JAPAN, PATRIARCHALISM AND THE RULE OF LAW -- THE PASSING OF MODERNISM AND THE RECONFIGURATION OF LABOUR RIGHTS IN JAPAN -- CONSTRUCTING A DISCOURSE ON LABOUR FOR PACIFIC CAPITALISM -- CONCLUSION: AUTHORITARIAN FAMILIALISM OR ENFORCEABLE BENEVOLENCE? -- PART TWO HUMAN RIGHTS, LABOUR LAW AND PATRIARCHALISM IN PACIFIC ASIA -- 3. THE PHILIPPINES AND MENDICANT PATRIARCHALISM -- THE FORMATION OF A PATRIARCHALIST POLITICS -- THE MAKING OF A DEPENDENT ECONOMY -- THE MAKING OF A MENDICANT PATRIARCHALISM -- THE INSTITUTIONS OF MENDICANT PATRIARCHALISM AND THE CLASS STRUCTURE -- MENDICANT PATRIARCHALIST SOCIETY, THE LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- THE LABOUR LAW OF MENDICANT PATRIARCHALISM -- TOWARDS A FILIPINO SYSTEM OF LABOUR LAW: COMPULSORY ARBITRATION -- RETREAT FROM THE FILIPINO WAY: THE ARRIVAL OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING